Programs by Date

2005

Saturday 26 Mar 2005

Repeat of TMS recorded 8/10/04 in The Famous Spiegeltent at the Melbourne International Arts Festival, 2004; guests included Jodelklub am Albis, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Elena Kats-Chernin, Lyndon Terracini, Eric Sleichem, Michael Morley and the person who he sometimes accompanies, Festival director Robyn Archer; as well as music from Saffire and Samoan trio Sunga and others!

Saturday 19 Mar 2005

When too much folk music is never enough! Roy Bailey calls himself an anthologiser of other people's folk songs and he's also Professor of Social Studies at Sheffield University in the UK. He puts the two together on this week's Music Show. And Irish accordion music from Tony McMahon as well as bluesman Eric Bibb, both playing live. And a philosophical overview of The Strong Report into the future of Australian orchestras with former orchestra heads Mary Vallentine and Martin Buzacott.

Saturday 12 Mar 2005

This week The Music Show comes live and direct from The Port Fairy Folk Festival. Andrew Ford will talk to many of the headline acts at the Festival- and they'll all play: singer/song-writer Janis Ian; Canadian duo Madviolet; master of the Irish flute and tin whistle Grey Larsen; blues man and story teller Guy Davis; Canadian multi-instrumentalist Michael Jerome Browne; venerable English singer Bob Fox; exponents of Southern USA string band music Michael Compton and David Long; and Canadian singer Serena Ryder.

Saturday 5 Mar 2005

Andrew Ford talks to guests appearing at Womadelaide 2005: Israeli violinist and oud-player Yair Dalal; African reggae star- and inheritor of Bob Marley's mantle- Alpha Blondy; and South African singer known there as 'the voice': Vusi Mahlasela. Andrew will also talk to guitarist Tony McManus and bass player Alain Genty who have just commenced an Australian tour.

Saturday 26 Feb 2005

On The Music Show this Saturday, Andrew Ford talks to David Harrington, leader of the now legendary Kronos Quartet, saxophonist Jamie oehlers and pianist Sam Keevers will play some tunes from their new album 'Grace'; and US singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon will sing and play the hammer dulcimer, and talk to Andrew about his music. And Australian violinist making good in New York Ben Breen talks about his double-life as a sommelier.

Saturday 19 Feb 2005

Andrew Ford talks to jazz banjo-player and Woody Allen Band member Cynthia Sayer; to eminent composer Larry Sitsky; to singer-songwriter Alistair Hulett about the story of controversial Scottish hero John MacLean; and to new darling of the protest set, Michael Franti.

Saturday 12 Feb 2005

Chief Talking Head David Byrne is Andrew Ford's guest on The Music Show this week along with Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt, one of the foremost players of Bach on the piano. Andrew also talks to double bass whiz kid Christian McBride who's in Australia from New York to front the ABC orchestras playing symphonic jazz; and another New York connection: the music of Morton Feldman- his piece 'Rothko Chapel' is about to receive a rare performance in Perth- composer Iain Grandage discusses Feldman's music.

Saturday 5 Feb 2005

Andrew Ford talks to k.d. lang about her salute to fellow Canadian singer-songwriters who feature on her new CD "Hymns from the 49th Parallel" and why it is that she's not writing her own material at present. Members of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo pipe and drum regiment give their own particular musical salute to one of the most popular and enduring music festivals in the world. Wang Zheng Ting of the Australian Chinese Music Ensemble from Melbourne bids us Gun Hey Fat Choy for Chinese New Year. And bassist Lloyd Swanton gives a cost/benefit analysis of being one third of a very uncompromising jazz outfit: The Necks.

On the Music Show this Saturday, Andrew Ford talks to singer and actor Harry Connick Jnr who says he's not a jazz singer but definitely a jazz pianist steeped in the New Orleans piano style; folk family Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Martha Wainwright discuss the songs of their compatriot Leonard Cohen and why they endure for new generations; and we'll also remember the great Spanish soprano Victoria de los Angeles, and Australian composer and pianist Miriam Hyde, both of whom have recently died.

Saturday 22 Jan 2005

Revisit interviews from last year's East Coast Blues & Roots Festival with the legendary guitarist and singer Taj Mahal; Australia's pin-up boy of the blues John Butler;Canadian singer songwriter with an astonishing voice Serena Ryder and the great New Orleans piano Dr John, aka The Night Tripper.

Feature articles

At 20, Tupac Shakur released his first album. By 25, he was dead. But in those five short years he cemented his legacy as of the most iconic figures in hip hop. L-FRESH the LION and Rosa Gollan explain.